Word: drum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Self-Service. In Grand Rapids, Mich., sheriff's deputies arrested Nils Bundy after they traced a 200-ft. garden hose leading from a service station to his home, discovered that he had been pumping gasoline into a 30-gal. drum in his basement...
When, in his speech last Friday, President Pusey listed some of the University's contributions to the nation's welfare and defense, he was showing more than the desire to beat the Harvard drum. He exhibited a frank recognition that the storm over Harvard "softness" toward Communism is in part a problem in public relations, and that one way to weather it is to try to more accurately portray the University to the public...
...drum up sales, Cravens sent 20 RFC salesmen out on the road and negotiated with investment banking houses to underwrite the sale of $65 million worth of Baltimore & Ohio Railroad bonds. Cravens also hoped to get banks to form a national syndicate to take over most of the 4,327 business loans of less than $200,000, which would take too long to sell...
...formerly a two-monthly dwelling, in 1929. Its first symptoms of psychology appeared a few years later; many walls were wired for sound and a portable table lamp equipped with a microphone filled in the gaps. All microphones fed into a huge recording machine in the basement, while a drum on the library wall conceals a separate sound system. The "bamboo room," now used for seminars, was then an observation chamber for Cambridge children at play. Behind a one way mirror, a psychologist could record his impressions of them...
Sprinkle Wrinkle. General Electric Co. brought out a clothes dryer that also sprinkles dry clothes in preparation for ironing. The sprinkling unit is a metal cylinder which squirts water while the clothes are being tumbled in the drum. Price...